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Royal protest at Essex A visit by the Queen to Essex University was disrupted when six anti-monarchy protesters were ejected from a ceremony to celebrate the university's 40th anniversary. The Queen...
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Laurie Taylor column
From - The Office of the Vice-Chancellor To: All Academic Staff You will no doubt have seen the recent Times Higher survey in which 48 per cent of academics reported that they had felt obliged at...
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Alan Ryan
It's time to stop being smug and admit that the US has reared a generation of cosmopolitan high-achievers One of our last occasions for self-congratulation is destined for the dustbin. Whatever we...
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Leader: Mixed messages on key subjects
The proposed closure of a range of courses at Exeter University has provided a dry run for funding council officials wrestling with the problem of how to preserve endangered subjects....
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Leader: Pay deals give hope
One favourable pay deal - at the Open University (back page) - and the prospect of another at Manchester University are not enough for firm conclusions to be reached about the value of local...
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Rights and rungs of promotion (1)
I am sure that Susan Bassnett's contribution to your How to Get Promoted booklet (November 19) was intended to be supportive of academic staff on fixed-term contracts. It was, however, very...
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Rights and rungs of promotion (2)
Missing from your booklet on getting promoted is any mention of the fact that promotion based on prejudice, patronage or privilege is unlawful. Under the Education Reform Act 1988, universities have...
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Falling standards? (1)
We disagree with Luton vice-chancellor Les Ebdon's assertion that Luton University would not compromise its academic standards ("Caught in vicious cycle of declining standards", November 19). When we...
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Falling standards? (2)
"Save our standards", you say (Leader, November 19). But what standards? Who decides these but a consensus of academia's Great and Good, relative to an ideology/world-view: that is, a ruling theory...
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Falling standards? (3)
Your poll on declining standards concerns me for two reasons ("Poll reveals pressure to dumb down", November 19). First, the article seems to imply that only well-qualified school leavers are...
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A place for bullies
The culture of bullying described in "Bullying made me feel suicidal" (Soapbox, November 5) is directly linked to the institutional transformation of British universities in the past two decades. The...
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Essential ethics
The debate about ethical oversight of research in the social sciences seems to be becoming unnecessarily polarised (Letters, November 12). Surely we have nothing to fear from procedures that require...
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Just Jacques
Your articles on Jacques Derrida (Features, November 12) focused on his intellectual achievements. Yet he deserves to be remembered as a passionate champion of the oppressed and abused, human and...
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Facing the F-word
Congratulations on at last mentioning the F-word ("Top-up failures could go broke", November 19). As Roger Brown notes in the latest Higher Education Review , as many as half the present university...
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Long-term trends
I totally agree with John Schellnhuber (People, November 12) that a better understanding of possible thresholds in the climate system beyond which rapid, damaging changes may occur is absolutely...